Mysterious Deaths Doctors Can't Explain

Doctor mike is both a doctor and a storyteller

Mad respect for the animators who put this together!. Story time with Dr. Mike should be a regular thing!!! ️.

“Only this and nothing more” —brilliant use of Poe’s own words to wrap up the story of his death. I really really liked that addition, it was very clever and made me smile.

As someone who suffers chronic nightmares, I can 100% believe it can kill. There have been times I felt very close to being scared to death. I even have a heart monitor at home and nightmares are a big trigger for arrhythmia (the fear and breathe holding only amplifies this). I imagine that the chronic stress of adapting is what triggered the intensity of these nightmares. Now that I’m with a very loving partner for the first time in my life and feel safe, my nightmares aren’t as intense.

As for saying Poe's death was scary because it was real, here is a fun fact: The military barracks he was trained in, upon renovations, found a body in the walls, dated to around when Edgar Allen Poe was there. So there is speculation that some of his works were based on real life, and he was venting his guilt into his works.

I cant believe someone as popular as Edgar Alan Poe’s death is still a mystery

As a Baltimore native, I loved that you covered Edgar Allen Poe! Growing up, we were always told his death was syphilis & alcoholism-related complications.

These are my favorite videos you do! The combination of storytelling, education and your own professional lens on historical events is so so interesting. Definitely my ideal way to learn😊

Story time with Dr. Mike should be a regular thing!!! ♥️

Actually Edgar’s story after death gets more strange as he was in financial distress and was actually buried in a mass grave as a pauper in Baltimore. Funds were raised for a memorial but it took several years to get something there and even the body they took out was not even believed to be Edgar because his body was to the bones already. The people had no way of knowing who it was. The strange things is that every year on his death date a person sets out flowers and leaves red lipstick near the grave. The graveyard placed a fence to keep people out. But also a raven sits on the grave every so often despite the grave being straight white marble. It gives most people the creeps at night despite being fully lighted. Heck even Edgar’s spirit might appear as a ghostly head at least in local legend.

This was pretty good Mike! You should keep doing these storytelling vids.

Im loving this format. I hope dr Mike does more of these.

Fun fact, the Hmong deaths were one of the inspirations behind Nightmare On Elm Street because it’s correlated to the myths around sleep paralysis. Growing up, my grandparents told me it was the demons while experiencing sleep paralysis.

My uncle once had a terrifying dream in which he felt suffocated and unable to breathe. My aunt noticed him shaking and making noises as if he were choking. My uncle explained in the dream, he found himself in a bed surrounded by elderly people who appeared to be asleep. Despite his efforts, he couldn't wake them or free himself from the bed. Upon closer inspection, he realized that these people looked deceased. Although he became aware he was dreaming, he couldn't wake up, even when he tried to yell in the dream, no voice came out. He began to struggle for breath. My aunt, witnessing his distress in the real world, noticed him shaking and making choking noises. She quickly woke him up by shaking him. Following this ordeal, they performed a Hmong ceremony with jingle bells to address the unsettling nature of his dream. Lastly, my uncle said he was fortunate his wife was there to wake him up. As he tried to awaken himself, he felt the dream becoming darker and began to sense a looming death within the dream.

These are great!! We need more of these!!!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

The story of the man who died because of nightmares makes so much sense to me. As a Syrian who experienced and witnessed the tragedies of wars from a young age, to this day I still have nightmares of what happened, the poor guy probably felt devastated, lonely, helpless, unsafe with nowhere to belong or a place to feel safe and treated like a human.

Thank you for talking about the unexplainable deaths that affected Hmong/Laotian refugees. It is something not many are aware of and needs to talked about more.

This may be the most brilliant video ever. Love this and your delivery is so perfect.

Love this type of style videos along with learning different conditions or what have you in the body and more. Thanks for what you do, Dr. Mike. I appreciate this.

I actually learned about the Hmong deaths in my Cultural Anthropology class last year. There was a preexisting heart condition among many of the Hmong, which made them more susceptible to cardiac arrhythmia. Part of their beliefs is that if they perform the right ceremonies and worship correctly, good spirits will protect them from evil ones (It's been a while since I read the article so some of the details might be off). When they emigrated to America, many of them couldn't participate in their faith as much as they should have. A lot of the Hmong immigrants (mostly men for some reason) were believed to suffer from sleep paralysis, which involves a deep sense of dread and the feeling that something is weighing you down or watching/attacking you. They believed that the sleep paralysis was an evil spirit trying to kill them because they had no protection, and their intense fear triggered their heart condition and caused a heart attack. The only Hmong who died in their sleep this way had both the genetic heart condition AND suffered from sleep paralysis, and those who were able to keep up their participation in worship did not die.